Leading Service Provider AmeriVault Selects Asigra for High-End Remote Online Data Backup Service; Asigra Televaulting to Serve as Software Foundation for AmeriVault's ServerVault Online Backup Service

Business Wire, June 20, 2006

TORONTO & WALTHAM, Mass. -- Asigra(TM), the technology specialists in agentless remote backup and recovery software, today announced that AmeriVault, a leading provider of online data backup, offsite storage and recovery services, has selected Asigra Televaulting(TM) as the software platform for its ServerVault online data backup service.

The agreement brings together two of the pioneers and innovators in remote data protection. Asigra's Televaulting software has been the solution to customer backup pain points for remote office backup for 20 years with innovations such as the first agentless backup/recovery software solution and the first ILM-aware backup solution, while AmeriVault pioneered disk-to-disk (D2D) online data backup managed services in 1998.

ServerVault is AmeriVault's premier brand of online D2D managed backup service. ServerVault delivers trusted data protection that synchronizes data backup and offsite storage by simply installing software and leveraging existing Internet connectivity, ensuring offsite backup discipline. Automated backups lighten the IT burden, freeing up valuable staff to focus on strategic initiatives. The partnership with Asigra enables AmeriVault to extend the capabilities of ServerVault by leveraging the advanced functionality of Asigra Televaulting, such as the grid-based performance and capacity scaling for virtually unlimited data growth, allowing the software to support any backup load.

"Adopting Asigra Televaulting as the software delivery platform of our ServerVault service has allowed us to graduate to a higher level and deliver a premium online backup service," said Bud Stoddard, AmeriVault president and CEO. "The net effect is an enhanced backup service that is easier to deploy and manage and provides a superior value proposition for our customers. We look forward to a long partnership with Asigra that will allow us to continually enhance our service offerings and keep AmeriVault on the leading edge of managed data protection and recovery."

Asigra delivers additional cost savings with Televaulting's remote upgrade capability that enables service providers to centrally push software updates to all clients and laptops to ensure that upgrades are installed properly, thereby eliminating another customer complexity from the backup equation and further minimizing administrative overhead and expenses for service providers. AmeriVault customers will also benefit from Asigra's single-instance common file elimination technology that minimizes storage capacity requirements and significantly reduces the backup window.

"We are pleased that AmeriVault has selected Asigra as the platform to deliver their flagship ServerVault backup service to their targeted customers. Televaulting was architected to deliver high availability, redundancy and resiliency to protect customers choosing a managed backup service," said Eran Farajun, executive vice president of Asigra. "AmeriVault has a solid pedigree when it comes to information protection services and is a recognized leader in delivering online backup services."

About AmeriVault

As a premier leader of managed online backup, archiving and recovery solutions, AmeriVault has clients in 43 states and 12 countries. Backed by a SAS 70 certification, AmeriVault delivers services under stringent security controls and employs 24/7 systems monitoring, redundant firewalls, dual access circuits and replicated, remote storage vaults for high service availability. Headquartered in Waltham, MA, AmeriVault has five offices and five data vault centers around the country. For more information, visit www.amerivault.com or call (800) 774-0235.

About Asigra

Asigra is the award-winning leader in remote office/branch office online backup/recovery with more than three petabytes of data under protection. Since 1986, the company's agentless Televaulting solution has centralized data management and eliminated the pricing and performance problems created by agent-based tape backup software in multi-site enterprises. Televaulting addresses state, Federal and international regulatory compliance demands by backing up remote/branch office data to the data center. Data is encrypted both in-flight over the WAN and at rest. Televaulting is offered by leading resellers and service providers worldwide to deliver highly secure data protection. Privately held Asigra is headquartered in Toronto, Canada with partner offices located globally. For more information, visit www.asigra.com.

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